worm emails marked as possible spam

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 1 17:48:34 GMT 2005


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On 01/12/05, IT Dept <itdept at fractalweb.com> wrote:
> Venkata Achanta wrote:
>
> >They should be caught as viruses. i had the same exact problem last week.
> >
> >Are you using clamav or clamavmodule ? change it to clamav in
> >mailscanner.conf and you should be fine.
> >
> >
> Thanks. I am already using clamav, not clamavmodule.
>
> I just ran freshclam, and it says everything is up to date. Not sure
> where else to look.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>

Just out of curiosity, what does "clamscan --version" give?

Does the mails have the usual zip/exe things attached? If so, you
could always block the filenames/types...
If not, why then they are already "sanitized" perhaps?

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-- Glenn
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